片刻 (piàn kè)
short period of time; a moment
Character breakdown
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片 (piān) · 4 strokes
Pictograph of a slice of a tree, taken from the right half of 木 (tree).
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刻 (kè) · 8 strokes
Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 亥 represents the sound.